Daily life: dormir - to sleep / "se" verbs

Bonjour! Today, a lesson for level A1 (debutants/beginners) -but a good review for A2

Tamara de Lempicka: la dormeuse (the sleeper)

Today's lesson revolves around dormir (to sleep), and the daily activities around it.

Focus:

vocabulary: daily life, sleep

grammar: "se" verbs (reflexive/pronominal verbs)

To listen to the lesson, click on the audio player:

A few verbs:dormir is irregular
je dors
tu dors
il/elle/on dort
nous dormons
vous dormez
ils/elles dorment!!! notice how you drop the "m" for the first 3 persons and put the "m" back for the last 3 !!!

Se coucher (to go to bed), se lever(to get up), se réveiller(to wake up)These are pronominal verbs, they are preceded by "se" -I like to call them "se" verbs*.
Their conjugation always starts the same way:

je me ...

tu te ...

il/elle/on se ...

nous nous ...

vous vous ...

ils/elles se ...

I strongly recommend memorizing this. That way, it's in your head and it will come out automatically when you need it!

!!! If the verb starts with a vowel, "me", "te" and "se" become m', t', s'

That's all for the conjugations, now, some vocabulary:
le lit the bed
aller au lit to go to bed
le lever de soleil sun rise
le coucher de soleil sun set
le matin the morning or "in the morning"
le soir evening/night or "in the evening / at night"
l'après-midi afternoon or "in the afternoon"
la nuit night / night time (but not late evening! night is the time when people usually sleep!)
tôt / de bonne heure early
tard late
être fatigué-e to be tired
le sommeil the sleep
tout de suite right away
toujours always
souvent often
très very
le chat the cat
l'enfant the child